Where an HTML link beats a PDF or a slide file, sector by sector — fundraising, board reporting, UX research, architecture, and time-bound event sites.
A lot of high-stakes work is, at the end, an HTML file that has to reach specific people: a deck, a board pack, a findings report, a design preview, an event site. The format question — link or attachment, HTML or PDF — lands differently depending on the sector, because the stakes and the lifecycle differ. The controls are the same; the judgment changes.
A deck a VC re-opens across a raise is a reference, not a one-off. Investor pitch decks as HTML links covers the permanent-link, view-tracked, optionally-passworded shape, with a custom domain when the deck should read as the company's own surface.
Quarterly business reviews for VC-backed startups covers the board-pack case — phone-readable pre-reads, permanent links so members re-reference past quarters, and the privacy a board update needs.
User research findings as a private HTML report covers interactive findings that outlive the readout meeting, behind a private link for NDA-bound research.
Architectural and interior design previews covers long engagements where the firm's brand on the URL matters and the preview should read as the firm's own delivery surface.
Some sites are meant to retire. Event microsites that disappear after the event covers the live-then-archive lifecycle, and wedding RSVP microsites is the specific version — live around the date, retired cleanly after, without a subscription quietly renewing into next year.
Strip the industry away and the shape is identical: a self-contained file, an unguessable noindex link, optional password and expiry, and a plan choice that's about persistence and ownership — not about unlocking the privacy. The sector picks the controls; the controls don't change.
See the full set in the By industry archive.
Board members read the QBR on their phones over the weekend, then re-reference specific sections weeks later when drafting IC memos. The container shapes both halves of that cycle.
UXR deliverables get read on phones by executives and re-read by PMs months later. The HTML report shape handles both — interactive video clips, hover transcripts, NDA-bound delivery — better than the slide deck it usually ships as.
Wedding RSVPs, conference landing pages, launch event sites — built for a window, awkward to leave online afterward. Channel options for a microsite that retires cleanly.
miinideck turns a single HTML file into an unguessable link with optional password and expiry. Default-private, never indexed.